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• Dr Alice Good (MSc, BSC, PGCE, FHEA)• Senior Lecturer Human Computer Interaction (SoC) • Research Interests

• Supporting mental health and wellbeing.  Health applications facilitating self soothing, cognitive restructuring, behaviour and monitoring. Emphasis on SELF MANAGEMENT

• Designing and evaluating applications for users with mental health disorders; requirements and acceptance analysis

• Demographic target• Emotional wellbeing is important for everyone. Particular

interest in Borderline Personality Disorder as a user case

Current Research• Funded Projects

– HEIF – Remembering my Favourite Things – mobile application to facilitate ‘self soothing’(with Clare Wilson Psch)

– AHRC - Exploring the impact of engagement in family and local history, linking to wellbeing (with Geography- submitted)

• Collaborations– Consultant Psychiatrists (BDP)– United Response (Psychiatric outreach service)– Kingston University (social robots for children)

• PhD students – – Claire – facilitating reminisce therapy via mobile applications for people

with dementia– Memory – increasing ecommerce adoption in the elderly – Bola – self management of post natal depression via mobile applications

Applied HCI

• Understanding users (context & environment) is paramount– Acceptance– Engagement– Trust– Usability– User Experience

• HCI Methods– Usage scenarios– Task analysis– Interaction modelling– Prototype development/evaluation– Usability/Accessibility evaluation– Empirical evaluations

Related Publications• Good, Alice, Sambhantham, A. and Panjganj, Vahid (2013) Looking back at Facebook content and the positive impact upon wellbeing: Exploring

reminiscing as a tool for self soothing. In: Online Communities and Social Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8029, pp. 278--286. Springer, Heidelberg

• Darvishy, A. and Good, Alice (2013) Inclusive websites for the elderly: user friendly guidelines for designers and managers of websites and applications. In: HCI International 2013, 21st - 25th July 2013, Las Vegas.

• Good, Alice, Ancient, Claire, Postolache, G., Socianu, A. and Afghan, A. (2013) Self soothing by reviewing favorite memories: an exploration of mobile application prototypes, which facilitate positive wellbeing via reminiscing. In: HCI International 2013, 21st - 25th July 2013, Las Vegas.

• Ancient, Claire, Good, Alice, Fitch, Tineke and Wilson, Clare (2013) Can ubiquitous devices utilising reminiscence therapy be used to promote well-being in dementia patients? an exploratory study. In: HCI International 2013, 21st - 25th July 2013, Las Vegas.

• Ancient, Claire and Good, Alice (2013) Issues with designing dementia-friendly interfaces. In: HCI International 2013, 21st - 25th July 2013, Las Vegas.

• Good, A. & Sambhanthan, A. (2012) A Review into eHealth Services and Therapies: Potential for Virtual Therapeutic Communities - Supporting People with Severe Personality Disorder. Research and Development in E-Business through Service-Oriented Solutions. IGI Global.

• Good, A., Wilson, C., Ancient, C., Sambhanthan, A. (2012).A Proposal To Support Wellbeing in People With Borderline Personality Disorder: Applying Reminiscent Theory in a Mobile App. The ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems. 

• Gnanayutham, Paul and Good, Alice(2011) Disabled Users accessing off the shelf software using a button interface. In: Computer Science and Information Systems, 7th Annual International Conference, June 2011, Athens

• Good, A , Sambhanthan, A., Panjganj, V., Spettigue, S.,(2011) Computer Interaction and the Benefits of Social Networking for People with Borderline Personality Disorder: Enlightening Mental Health Professionals. Proceedings of Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), held as part of HCI International 2011, Springer Orlando, Florida, US, July 2011

• Good, A., Gnanayutham, P., Sambhanthan, A., Panjganj, V., Spettigue, S., (2011) A Framework for the Requirements of a Second Life Virtual Therapeutic Community for the Support & Treatment of People with Borderline Personality Disorder . Computer Science and Information Systems, Published by ATINER, 2011

• Good, A.,(2011) Automating the ranking of web pages according to user defined accessibility ratings: An exploratory investigation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg

• Good A., Jerrams-Smith J.(2008).  Enabling Accessibility And Enhancing Web Experience: Ordering Search Results According To User Needs.  Universal Access in the Information Society.  Springer Berlin / Heidelberg

• Good A., Stokes S. (2007). Elderly, Novice Users and Health Information Web Sites: Issues of Usability and Accessibility. Journal of Healthcare & Information Management. Volume 21, Issue 1. 

• Good A., (2004). Addressing User Needs: Adapting Information Access For The Elderly. Proceedings of HCI 2004, Design for Life.  Research Press International.